EU: Financial Management and Fraud (EUC Report)

My Lords, I am glad that I delayed my response, because the noble Lords, Lord Dykes and Lord Pearson, have managed to fight a score draw on that position. I will stay out of that particular argument, but I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Inglewood. He said that it was important that European expenditure should be broken down by member state. The annual allocated expenditure of the European Commission is published in September each year. It gives details by member state of the amounts paid to each member state in any given year. I agree that that is desirable. It is already in place and gives us the basis for our initiative in being able to identify issues as far as the United Kingdom is concerned.